EXPECTORATION
\ɛkspˌɛktəɹˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɛkspˌɛktəɹˈeɪʃən], \ɛ_k_s_p_ˌɛ_k_t_ə_ɹ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of EXPECTORATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.
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That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
By Oddity Software
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The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.
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That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Same etymon. The act of expelling from the chest matters or secretions there collected or existing. It is, likewise, used for the expectorated matter.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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See sputum.
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The act of expelling from the mouth matter which has been brought to it from the lungs or from the passages which lead to them.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. The act of expectorating;—that which is expectorated.
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